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I am honoured to have this poem published in a such a longstanding and respected magazine. It may serve as a record - along with the documentary film that inspired it - the bombing of a hospital inclu...

In 2014, the Huntington Library Quarterly published an essay I had co-written with David Worrall, Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent, which explored the facts around Hannah Snell.  My ...

The Walled Up Woman is, of course, suitable to be performed in churches. The anchoress character comes with very little baggage, needing hardly any room. My costume fits into a small rucksack. A stage...

I have written a 20 minute monologue for Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, who is fading from history as a talented actress and contralto  as well as an influential and groundbreaking theatre manager, who int...

My three minute duologue, both roles performed and recorded by Martha Loader in her home during lockdown, was on East Suffolk /one radio every day  from 31st January at 10.30 am and 2.30pm. I love sh...

 One sunny September morning we drove into the hills - up and up - past blue and verdant views to El Montell in the Baix Penedes. We parked and asked in the  village of Aiguaviva's lone restaurant (...

Well before Byron, long before Lawrence, a Nottingham writer was living a truly revolutionary life... Lucy Hutchinson was the earliest and most rebellious of Nottingham’s writers. Her Me...

I was curious to see how Lady in a Veil would transfer to Zoom, doubting the technology would support it easily. So far Lady Mary had thrived on the warmth of performing to people in the same room wit...